How to Use homemaker in a Sentence

homemaker

noun
  • TV commercials often show happy homemakers.
  • And the life of the homemaker was more interesting to me than the life of Wall Street.
    Cass Bird; Styling By Samira Nasr, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Their home base was the kitchen and being the happy homemaker.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • The son of a postal worker and a homemaker, Austin grew up in Thomasville, Georgia.
    Dan Alexander, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • His wife Suzy, 45, a homemaker, had also been shot and stabbed to death.
    Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE.com, 28 May 2021
  • Thrifty homemakers turned to the humble loaf as a way to stretch a costly protein.
    Kathy Moore and Roxanne Wyss, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • His mother, a homemaker, then married Thomas B. Owens, who was in the Army.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2023
  • His father ran a chain of hat stores, and his mother was a homemaker.
    Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
  • At that time, his dad owned a sporting goods store and his mother was a homemaker.
    Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Brittney Yevette Griner grew up in Houston, Texas, the daughter of a homemaker and a cop.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2022
  • For her part, Shriver took aim at Butker’s praise of his wife’s choice to be a homemaker.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
  • His father was a banker, and his mother was a homemaker.
    Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Back home, his mother was a homemaker, and his dad worked as a server in a restaurant.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 14 Apr. 2023
  • She was described as a homemaker and a long-standing member of a bridge club.
    Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
  • Ostrow was born in San Francisco in 1931, the son of a glove salesman and a homemaker.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
  • Her mother, a homemaker, believed the home is the center of a woman’s life.
    Dorany Pineda Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2021
  • His mother was a homemaker, and his father drove a truck.
    Amanda Petrusic, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2021
  • His mother was a homemaker, and his father ran a store that sold children’s books and toys.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • Lucy was a homemaker, aching for her shot in the spotlight and constantly scheming to get it.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The other spouse is a homemaker or at least a more modest earner.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Her father was a colonel in the Army National Guard, and her mother was a homemaker.
    Michael S. Rosenwald, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • Frankie was a homemaker and a dental assistant, as well as a florist.
    Isabella Rosario, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2021
  • His father was a porter on the Santa Fe Railroad, and his mother was a homemaker.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • His father worked at a coal and lumber yard; his mother was a homemaker.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Tatro is the son of entrepreneur Scott Tatro, and his mother Maria is a homemaker.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Would the 53-year-old homemaker who came to the hospital with a four-day headache and burning in her nose want shock paddles if her heart stopped?
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
  • His father, Frank, was a forester, and his mother, Sandra (Rich) Leach, was a homemaker.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • His father, Charles, was a lawyer, and his mother, Louise (Hunt) Whitehead, was a homemaker.
    Daniel E. Slotnik, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2023
  • His father, Hans, found work as a baker, and his mother, Marie, was a homemaker.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Sep. 2021
  • In her eyes, trad wives are homemakers whose priority is cooking, cleaning and being subservient to men.
    Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2024

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